Richmond and Petersburg Railroad

The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was a railroad that ran between Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia from 1838 to 1898. It was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly, and it included a bridge over the James River, which opened in 1838 and was closed on 26 March 1882. The bridge was destroyed by the Confederate States Army during the evacuation of Richmond at the end of the American Civil War in April 1865, but it was later rebuilt; it was burned again in 1882. In 1900, the railroad merged into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.